Matskási István (szerk.): A Magyar Természettudományi Múzeum évkönyve 82. (Budapest 1990)
Papp, J.: New braconid wasps (Hymenoptera, Braconidae) in the Hungarian Natural History Museum, 1
Avçja oblonga sp. n. g (Figs 7-10) Description of the holotype o_ - Body 2.2 mm long. Head in dorsal view (Fig. 7) transverse, 1.79 times as broad as long, eye five times as long as temple, latter receded, occiput not excavated. Eye in lateral view 1.43 times as high as wide, temple broadening ventrally and its widest part behind eye half as long as width of eye. Ocelli small and near to each other (Fig. 7), distance between two ocelli shorter than diameter of an ocellus, 00L almost three times as long as OD and four times as long as POL. Face 1.7 times as wide as high, inner margin of eyes parallel. Malar space one-fourth longer than basal width of mandible. Occipital and hypostomal carinae not meeting each other. Head shagreened and dull, face and clypeus uneven to indistinctly shagreened and shiny to subshiny. - Antenna about one-third longer than body, with 28 antennomeres, flagellomeres long. First flagellomere 3.6 times as long as broad, further flagellomeres gradually shortening and attenuating so that penultimate flagellomere 3.5 times as long as broad. Mesosoma in lateral view 1.5 times as long as high. Notaulix present as a shallow impression meeting at middle of mesonotum, rugose field of hind half of mesonotum with a medio-longitudinal keel. Prescutellar furrow with five crenulae. Sternaulix present as a smooth impression. Propodeum areolated (Fig. B), basal pair of areolae with longitunidal rugae, other areolae uneven with more or less transverse rugulose elements. Mesonotum shagreened and dull similar to head, scutellum less shagreened and less dull. Mesopleuron polished. - Hind femur four times as long as broad. Hind tarsus slightly longer than hind tibia. Hind basitarsus just shorter than tarsal segments 2-4. Fore wing somewhat longer than body. Pterostigma (Fig. 9) five times as long as wide, issuing radial vein proximally from its middle; length of radial cell along metacarp about 1.5-1.6 times as long as pterostigma. Cu2 long, r 1 just shorter than width of pterostigma, r_2 2.7 times as long as r_l and 1.26 times as long as cuqul , n. rec. antefurcal. N . par . issuing from middle of outer side of brachial cell. First and second sections of n. mediella of hind wing equal in length, i.e. nervellus issuing from middle of n . mediella . Metasoma as long as head and mesosoma together. First tergite (Fig . TO) evenly and distinctly broadening posteriorly, 1.3 times as broad at hind than long medially, twice as wide behind as at base; spiracle anteriorly from its middle. Second tergite 1.46 times as long as third tergite. Fourth and further tergites more transverse than tergites 2-3, second tergite 1.81 times and third tergite three times as wide behind as long medially, further tergites more than three times wider. Basal pair of keels of first tergite meeting on its anterior third and continuing in a medio-longitudinal keel up to hind end of second tergite. All tergites subsclerotized , feebly shagreened and subshiny. Ovipositor sheath in lateral view just longer than hind basitarsus. Body brownish yellow. Ocellar field blackish, flagellum dark greyish, apex of mandible brownish. Palpi pale yellow. Legs yellow. Wings hyaline, pterostigma and. veins opaque yellow. Male and host unknown. Type material - Holotype 9.: India, Delhi, experimental field of Indian Agricultural Research Institute, 5 Oanuary 1982, leg. 3. PAPP; deposited in the Hungarian Natural History Museum, Hym. Typ. No. 7261. Etymology - The species name "oblonga" refers to the relatively elongate form of body; gender feminine. The new species,. Avga oblonga sp. n., is related to A. choaspes NIXON, 1940 (India : Punjab) 1 , however, readily distinguishable by the following features : On the basis of the original description Avga nixoni SUBBA RAO et SHARMA, 1966 (Indian 3. Ent. 2_8: 301-303) from India seems to represent but a colour variation of A. choaspes . Type examination is needed to establish the synonymy .
